FARMERS’ UNION
(Per Press Association — Copyright )
WELLINGTON, July 14. The- principle : of total derating of agricultural ''and pastoral lands for loading‘ purposes, was reaffirmed by ihe farmers’ union conference. There was a division of opinion, however, some delegates holding the opinion that the union ■ should press for partial derating, Injt an amendment to this effect was lost. A remit carried was an Auckland onep reading—Thig'.- conference considers that .the: present- system of finance fort mad . purposes Under the present; traffic' conditions is absolutely -wrong in principle and practice, and denmnda .the total, derating of agricultural and pastoral; land for road. purposes. It reaffirms the principle that the user should pay. It protests': strongly: against petrol taxation being devoted: to any , -purpose other than road construction and maintenance, and ■'e'alls : --Updn- all farmers to do their utmost to obtain these objectives. '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19330714.2.59
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1933, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
140FARMERS’ UNION Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1933, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in